RE: Gentoo Alpha questions

Hello Jay,

> Which LiveCD?

The Gentoo-alpha LiveCD, as found at <any gentoo
mirror>/experimental/alpha/livecd/

> In general, you will not be able to boot from a Gentoo LiveCD directly
with
> ARC/AlphaBIOS. You'll have to use MILO from a floppy. I don't believe
it's
> possible to make a CD bootable for both SRM and ARC.

Ok, that's what I tought from my experience with Debian. So what is the
preferred installation method then? Start from a separate partition of
my existing Debian installation?

> I didn't have any problems compiling stuff when I brought up my
Gentoo/Alpha
> box a month or so ago. 

That's good news.

> I did have to do 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha' emerge <package>
> several times, but I won't have to do that again, because Aron was
good
> enoguh to mark everything I installed and am running as stable in
response
> to my bug reports. :-)

Err, what does that mean? Sorry for being a neophyte, but
"ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha' emerge <package>" doesn't mean anything to
me... :-)

J-S

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